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INFORMED OPINION Latest Product Reviews Compiled and Edited by W INFORMED OPINION LATEST PRODUCT REVIEWS Compiled and Edited by W. S. Duncan I’d like to depart a bit from our normal review process this OmniDeck, you owe it to yourself to upgrade. If you don’t use the month and talk about a couple of items that were not submitted for OmniDeck, you should at least watch the video on Josh’s website review, one of which isn’t even for sale. The first is Joshua Jay’s for Vanishing Inc. and see how good this looks. I recommend it, new effect, Phantom Deck. The trick is an alternate, and much and I’m a cranky old man. improved, take on the overused OmniDeck meme. The second item isn’t a recommendation, it’s a requirement. In case you’ve never seen it, the OmniDeck is a block of Put down this magazine, log on to the interwebs, and visit Josh at plastic shaped like a deck of cards. If you put a card on top of it, www.VanishingIncMagic.com where he has a free ebook for you most people will take it for a deck of cards. The meme concludes to download. The book is called Magic in Mind; it’s a collection with you “vanishing” the deck, except for a selected card. This of essays by some of the best thinkers in magic. There are over always gets a surprised (read: good) reaction, but to my mind it’s thirty articles, written by folks like Darwin Ortiz, John Carney, not a magical event. A deck of cards is transformed into a lump Tommy Wonder, David Regal, and our own editor, Michael Close. of plastic…hardly high art. But Josh has managed to finesse the If there’s a name you think of when people talk about guys who idea just enough to turn it into something that makes even a cur- think well and long about our art, that name is probably represent- mudgeon like me smile: instead of a block of plastic, the deck of ed here. Josh spent three years getting permission, collecting, and cards transforms into a collection of transparent cards. This ups editing this volume. It’s one of the best books on “magic theory” the effect considerably, and instead of a lump you have a spread- that you’ll find, because it represents so many diverse viewpoints. able pack of “invisible.” It seems harder (though it hardly is) and And it won’t cost you anything but your email address and your the pack looks wonderful when you spread it between your hands time, which come to think of it makes it the most expensive book and there is a single card in the middle of the pack. If you use the you’ll get this year. Spend the time. You won’t regret it. ALL IN TWO-DVD SET new friends, very much in the seat of the old master. His compan- BY JACK CARPENTER ions – Ben Train, Chris Mayhew, Zach Lambert, and Tyler Wilson Available from: www.penguinmagic.com – provide an audience, ask questions, and clarify instructions, but Price $50.00 mostly they just sit back in awe. To be frank, there’s very little Jack could demonstrate that wouldn’t take most card workers by REVIEW BY ANTONIO M. CABRAL surprise. The discs are a mix of material, with most of the gambling Jack Carpenter is one of my big material featured on the first disc and most of the magic material heroes in card magic. He was the first on the second. The moves and techniques are spread through- card magic idol of mine I got to meet out the set. Some of my favorite items are: Running the Aces/ and befriend. His creative output Table Bluff Shift, an Ace production and control; Touch My over the last few years has been so Heart, which is a diabolically simple, clear, and direct approach astounding that, with the release to a two-card transposition; 451 Stack, a comedy gambling demo of his latest DVD set All In, Jack inspired by the late Earnest Earick; and Jack’s revised method Carpenter is starting to honk me off. for his Ultimate False Deal demonstration. Center deal demos are I’ve had the pleasure of seeing almost a dime a dozen – Jack ups the ante by placing four Tens on much of the material on All In pre- top of the deck, four Queens on the bottom, and four Aces in the viously, because Jack has shared it middle and then somehow deals all the Tens to one player, all the with friends and colleagues via his Queens to another, and the Aces to himself. The astonishing part YouTube channel. It’s become a bit is that it’s easier than it sounds. Another standout is Hustler’s Rip, of a running inside joke as to how a great take on the Three Card Monte that allows you to visibly incessantly often Jack posts a new tear a corner off the money card only to have the tear and the idea or routine. The astounding part is that there’s never a stinker corner magically jump to another card. A routine that I hadn’t in the bunch. Jack has an uncanny knack for sharp, astonishing, seen before is Imagine, a very good way to find two selected and entertaining card magic, whether it’s a quick trick or a longer cards, one physically chosen and one purely thought of. It also routine, or whether it requires advanced shuffle-and-deal work happens to be one of the easier items on the discs. Jack’s not afraid or a double lift and a subtlety. All In is two discs’ worth of such to work if he has to, but he never works hard for its own sake. If material, and there’s something for everyone here. he can get strong results with minimal effort, he will. Either way, As I observed in my review of his Seattle Sessions DVDs, Jack though, his work is never dumbed down. works very well in a casual atmosphere. Here, the crew at Paper The moves include some terrific multiple card controls, a Crane sat him down at a poker table with cigarettes and whiskey number of card switches, and a bottom palm that will have you and let him go to town on some very talented young cardmen. On shaking your head (but will definitely improve your approach to the Seattle Sessions he was among old friends; here, he’s among the move). For my money, the tips on second and bottom dealing 58 M-U-M Magazine - JULY 2013 are worth the price of the discs alone. Any time Jack talks about copper, the next shrinks, and the last becomes a half coin – fun, false dealing, I listen. And the over-the-shoulder point of view on different, practical, and mystifying. What more could a coin man his hands as he demonstrates the moves drives the point home. ask for? Seeing these routines in a professionally produced setting is a Christian Engblom presents some very useful and commer- real treat. The routines I mentioned are personal favorites; I can cial material for workers, including an excellent double Haunted recommend every item on these discs, however. (Okay, here’s Pack that ends with the cards cutting themselves in the spectator’s another recommendation: Poor Uncle Joe, a five-card poker hand hands, leaving the deck clean. Workers will also be fooled and repeat routine.) The only complaint I have is the title: All In. I intrigued by Christian’s Bill Change, which starts and ends with know there’s more material where this came from, and as I said the hands completely empty. Sleeves are not involved, you never there’s not a stinker in the bunch. It’s just not fair. Highly (and dip into your pockets, and the audience never looks away. The grumpily) recommended. technique has many other applications, and will be a revelation to you, unless you’re familiar with some of Jay Scott Berry’s early Fat BROTHERS 2: THE MAGIC CONtiNUES DVD stage work. BY DANI DAORtiZ, CHRistiaN ENGBLOM, Mr. Engblom also presents a multi-phase cards-through-table AND MIGUEL GEA routine that is surprising and entertaining in its own right, and also Available from: www.Kaps-Store.com sets you up for a near-perfect handling of Vernon’s Triumph. In Price $60.00 fact, the most difficult thing about this set may be choosing from the Triumph versions presented. Along the way, several “Fat” REVIEW BY CURTIS KAM techniques are described here, involving hiding objects within the performer’s “body crevices” (to use Christian’s phrase). Chicago If you enjoyed Fat Brothers magicians will recognize the basic idea as Matt’s Hideaway from 1, you’ll want the next volume The Magic of Matt Schulien, (Willmarth, 1959) and many of you in the series. If you’ve missed will find the technique, well, unsettling. the whole Fat Brothers thing There’s more from each of the Brothers, but I have to mention so far, but you enjoy powerful, some of the unique contributions of the guests. Card experts will deceptive, clever close-up with want to hear what Michael Weber has to say about the mystical cards, mainly, but also with anti-faro, because he has studied it in super slow motion, and can bills, thread, a coin or two, or explain how it works. Paul Wilson tips a beautiful instant produc- more, you’ll want this, too.
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